Bummed, Bummer, Bumming
Bummed: In New York, at least one team's baseball fans are bummed because the Yankees lost (today's second-most-cited blog phrase) and worse for them, the Mets are still alive.
Bummer: Politicos who thought this Foley thing might just fade away are realizing it did not and will not, fueled by further reports of the Florida Republican Congressman's sexual escapades with former pages (as an adult) and the resulting GOP meltdown and fallout that are being predicted and chronicled in today's most-cited news stories.
Bumming: But one of the day's poignant finds comes from a letter, veriified by Time magazine, from a Marine stationed in Iraq and written to his family, a lfrank letter now making the rounds of military officials and others, apparently, and in fairly stark contrast to the "stay the course" message being trumped in D.C. While strategists suggest dividing Iraq to make it a whole country, right-leaning bloggers are making hay of a Democratic National Committee Web-site "support our troops" photo of the wrong troop (today's most-cited blog post and since fixed).
Graphically speaking
In the run-up to next month's elections, Republicans thought they could manage the message with an emphasis on morals/values and the war on terror. Both, in strange ways, are certainly at the top of many agendas, but perhaps not with the message originally intended?...
Posted by Sue MacDonald at October 9, 2006 10:03 AM
